Indian athletics legend Edward Sequeira longs to see a compatriot on the Olympic podium. But he tempers that dream with grim reality that has gripped track and field in the country for decades since he retired.

Indian athletics legend Edward Sequeira longs to see a compatriot on the Olympic podium. But he tempers that dream with grim reality that has gripped track and field in the country for decades since he retired.

Indian athletics legend Edward Sequeira longs to see a compatriot on the Olympic podium. But he tempers that dream with grim reality that has gripped track and field in the country for decades since he retired.

Indian athletics legend Edward Sequeira longs to see a compatriot on the Olympic podium. But he tempers that dream with grim reality that has gripped track and field in the country for decades since he retired.

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Home minister K J George launched a scathing attack against those critical of his handling of the home department and for accusing him of being a land grabber.

George also ruled out a CBI probe into the killing of a youth, Kabir, by the anti-naxal force (ANF) personnel at a checkpost near Sringeri in Chikmagalur district. The ANF personnel allegedly mistook Kabir to be a naxal.

Congress MLA KR Ramesh Kumar had alleged in the legislative assembly that Hiremath was getting funds from foreign sources and using the same for political purposes, which according to Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA) was illegal.

Karnataka home minister KJ George also said he has referred charges against social activist SR Hiremath to the enforcement directorate (ED).

"He (Ashoka) had time for more than three years yet failed to fill up the posts in the department. He has, however, become an expert now in criticizing the state government on law and order front by making baseless allegations," George said.

Karnataka home minister KJ George, however, said former home minister R Ashoka was responsible for keeping more than 20,000 posts in police vacant for a long time.

The government is not feared of its chief whip P C George and he cannot put the government in any kind of pressure, said rural development minister K C Joseph. Many of the comments made by the government chief whip are against the interest of the UDF and have badly damaged the front.

Ganga Ram, who is still able to recollect only partially, said that he was working here in Dana Mandi and went to Delhi under depression after having a tiff with his employer. "I worked at Dhabas and then met with an accident but don't remember exactly how I boarded a train and reached Kerala," he said.

Father Geroge Kuttical from Trichur, Kerala, came as Santa in white clothes for Jalandhar resident Babli as he brought her husband Ganga Ram lost seven years back. Ganga Ram was handed over to Father Kuttical's centre for the destitute being run in Trichur. He is runnning his organization Friends and Birds of the Air (FBA) which has around a hndred centres across the country for the needy.